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Graham Mayor
 
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Default find and replace = delete

Use a wildcard replace of
..@
with nothing
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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Ben wrote:
I am trying to use the find and replace feature to get rid of a bunch
of periods in a document. I am able to turn them into spaces, but
not get rid of them completely.

This is analogues to what I have:

XXXX... XX XXX XX
XXXXXX... XXX XX XX
XXXXX... XXXX XXX XX
XXX... XX XXX XX
(instead of 4 lines I have 50 lines, and I have 20 documents like
this, so deleting by hand will take far to long)

This is what I want it to look like:
XXXX XX XXX XX
XXXXXX XXX XX XX
XXXXX XXXX XXX XX
XXX XX XXX XX

Thanks,

Ben